On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 19:53, patrick keshishian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 >> snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, >> the screen went, what I can best describe as "fuzzy". So I did the >> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the >> xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root >> window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the >> display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what >> to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more >> Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad >> and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only >> solution. > > Does this happen if you exit X normally? Sounds like the same problem > that affects lots of newer machines.
yes. I'd imagine it would, and just verified that it does do the same thing. sounds like this is a known issue, so i'll move along, unless someone wants me to test/try things. Thanks for the quick replies! --patrick
